Siphon attachment



Nom 13, 1928.

- A. L. 'ARMBRUSTER ,r-:r AL

sIEHoN ATTACHMENT Filed March 29, 1927 INVENTORS.

ATTOR N EY Patented Nov. is, ieee. Y A l,69l ,695'

UNITED STATES PATENT GFFIQE.

ARTHUR L. ARMBRUSTER AND CHARLES W. MADISON, or SEATTLE, wAsi-IInGToN.

sIPHoN ATTACHMENT. Y

Application led March 29, 192'?. Serial No. 179,224

Qur invention relates to siphoning appara- The siphon thus arranged operates to distus. rThe object of the invention is the procharge the liquid from the vessel. As the vision of an inexpensively constructed floataliquid isY thus withdrawn, the body 8 'detive device which is adapted to be attached scends with the fall of liquid in thevvessel', ac-

to a siphon for retaining the suction end companied by the suction end or" the siphon,

thereof at a short distance below the surface which end is at all times located slightly beof the body of liquid which'is to be withdrawn low the liquid level. by the Siphon. Y lVhen the liquid in the vessel is sufficientlyy The invention is illustrated in the accomdepleted the body 8 is stopped at the position l0 panying drawing, in which,- in which it is illustrated by dotted lines 81 in Figure l is atransverse vertical section of Fig. l, by reasonot` the legs as at 131 engaging a liquid containing vessel, and in side elevar the vessel bottom 14,'resulting in holding the tion a siphon with an embodiment of the siphon end, as denoted by 91, in spaced apart present invention applied thereto.4 Fig. 2 is relation above the vessel bottom 14.

a longitudinal vertical section, to a larger The distance it is desired at which the scale of a buoyant body connected to a siphon siphons suction end be stopped above the end; and Fig. 3 is an underside view of Fig. vessel bottom suriace is regulated by sliding 2 with the siphon omitted. the body lengthwise on the siphon. 00

In said drawing, the reference numeral 5 From the 'foregoing it will be ,apparent that represents a vessel containing a liquid which Athe invention provides means for progresis indicated by 6. represents a iieXible tube, sively lowering the inlet end of a siphon and or hose, for use as a siphon to withdraw liqstopping such end at a. selected distance above uid from said vessel. the bottom surface 14 ot the vessel, and above 7G According to the present invention I proa stratum of sedimentary matter, if any, on

Avide a buoyant body 8 which may be of wood the bottom, thereby rendering the siphon caor other suitable material. Said body. is pable of evacuating the liquid without the adapted to be detachably connected to the sediment.. tube 7 as by providing a hole l0 in the body, VJhat we claim, is,- and within which hole the tube makes a t'ric- A fioatative Siphon-hose regulating device tional tit. comprising in combination a body having a This hole l0 is desirably located at one side plane under surface and provided with Van of the midlength of the body and is Varranged opening arranged in inclined relation with in an inclined relation with respect to the respect to said under surface and extending SQ planes of its upper and lower body surfaces entirely through the body, said hole being of 11 and l2. Secured to and extending downa dia-meter to receive the Siphon-hose and to wardly from near the ends ot the body8, are have the latter trictionally engage the body legs 13. A whereby the body may be `disposed at a To apply the invention, the siphon tube 7 is desired position along the length of the hose, S5 inserted in the hole l() from the top of the and leg elements depending from the body body and then pushed through the latter until at opposite sides of said opening.

the tubes inlet end 9 prot-rudes slightly below Signed at Seattle, Washington, this 24th the under surface l2 of the body. After the day of February, 1927.

tube is tilled with a siphoning charge of liq-V y,

uid, the tube is applied substantially as shown ARTHUR L. ARMBRUSTER.

' 45 in Fig. l with the buoyant body 8 in the liq- CHARLES lV. MADISON.

uid to tloatatively support one end of the tube or Siphon. 

